The human rights lawyers who represented George Floyd will lobby the United Nations to address the racist treatment of Black refugees at Ukraine ’s borders.
Jasmine Rand and Ben Crump led a virtual news conference to reveal a coalition will fight for the rights of hundreds of men, women and children denied the chance to flee the killing - some at gunpoint - by border guards.
It includes Jamaican MP G. Anthony Hylton, solicitor Jacqueline McKenzie, Peter Herbert, one of the Uk’s first black judges and Carlos More, President of the National Bar Association in the US.